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Cyclists to Ride Across United States for Post-9/11 Charity

Posted Jun. 2, 2014, 12:00 am

Parimal M. Rohit / Staff Writer

A month-long cross-country bicycle tour to support post-9/11
service members is scheduled to begin in the Malibu area on June 4. The Ride
Across USA cycling team will venture across the United States until it reaches
Florida on July 8.

The roughly 3,000-mile journey will specifically take the
Ride Across USA cycling team from Malibu to Amelia Island, Fla., in a little
more than a month. The nationwide trek aims to raise awareness and money for
Hope For The Warriors, which, according to one of the cyclists, is “a post-9/11
charity that helps restore hope and healing to injured service members and
their families.”

With an average age of 48, the cyclists will travel about
100 miles per segment.

The trek will take the cyclists through the California
desert before making stops at the Grand Canyon and northern Arizona, Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia before arriving in Amelia
Island, Fla.

They will be spending the Fourth of July in Oxford, Ala.

During the nationwide ride, the cyclists will only be taking
four days off.